You Can Buy A Town Or Island For Just A Couple Hundred Thousand Bucks

With a few hundred thousand dollars, or sometimes a lot more, that fantasy is within reach. Often these towns and islands come with your own personal piece of history, as well.

Take Garryowen, Mont., which is on the auction block this summer. It's not the first small, western town to go up for sale, but it may be the most historic. Garryowen marks the spot of Custer's Last Stand, where the famed Gen. Custer was killed by Native American warriors.

You need $100,000 to buy into the auction, though you'll likely pay quite a bit more to win the bidding on the town. The last small town in the area to go on the auction block, Buford, Wyo., sold last year for $900,000 and was billed as the smallest town in America with a population of just one person -- it's former owner.

Ghost town The Grove, Tex., was sold in 2010 for around $200,000. The owner agreed to sell at a slight discount to the granddaughter of the man who ran the town's general store.

If you're looking for your own piece of North America, check out these five towns or islands for sale:

Garryowen, Mont.

Garryowen is both an income-producing town and a place of historical significance. It is located on the perimeter of Little Bighorn Battlefield, where General Custer and his forces were defeated (and killed) by the combined forces of the Lakota and Cheyenne people in 1876.

If you score this site at the auction this August, you will not only own the spot of Custer's famous "last stand," but also a convenience store, post office, retail and office space, as well as a penthouse, guest suites, and your very own Subway sandwich shop. You can also bid on a collection of manuscripts kept by Custer's wife.

The town is positioned along Interstate 90, midway between Mount Rushmore National Monument and Yellowstone Park and is itself a tourist attraction for history buffs.

Visitors can check out your Custer museum and see virtually all of the locations involved with the Battle of the Little Bighorn, including the site where Custer was last seen alive.

Henry River Mill Village, N.C.

For $1.4 million, you can own a part of American industrial-era history, a movie set, and a small town in North Carolina.

Henry River Mill Village acted as the dilapidated home of "The Hunger Games" main character Katniss Everdeen.

The 72-acre property is located just south of Hildebran, N.C., but is so small that you can't even find it on Google Maps, which may be a plus for those craving a little privacy. Originally built as a planned community for the workers of a textile mill, the town emptied out after the mill burned down in 1977. Only 20 buildings, including the former company store, remain.

While the town is no longer functioning, its owner, Wade Shepherd, has told The Associated Press that there's plenty of interest in the site from Hunger Games fans. And with two more movies left to film in the series, you may be able to make some money off movie producers looking to film in the abandoned town.